diff --git a/base b/base
index b6ca09e06..8f5f38d73 160000
--- a/base
+++ b/base
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit b6ca09e06615df75f2219270a5e09d8ea331cd00
+Subproject commit 8f5f38d732bba170abdae5df015f9f4b475fac6e
diff --git a/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readerlink.lua b/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readerlink.lua
index da9f8faca..a28a5e182 100644
--- a/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readerlink.lua
+++ b/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readerlink.lua
@@ -1058,7 +1058,9 @@ function ReaderLink:onGoToPageLink(ges, internal_links_only, max_distance)
         for _, link in ipairs(links) do
             -- link.uri may be an empty string with some invalid links: ignore them
             if link.section or (link.uri and link.uri ~= "") then
-                if link.segments then
+                -- Note: we may get segments empty in some conditions (in which
+                -- case we'll fallback to the 'else' branch and using x/y)
+                if link.segments and #link.segments > 0 then
                     -- With segments, each is a horizontal segment, with start_x < end_x,
                     -- and we should compute the distance from gesture position to
                     -- each segment.