diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ed362653..e859fe9c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org).
 - Improved performance when loading large spreadsheets - [#825](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/pull/825)
 - Improved performance when loading large spreadsheets - [#824](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/pull/824)
 - Fix color from CSS when reading from HTML - [#831](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/pull/831) 
+- Fix infinite loop when reading invalid ODS files - [#832](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/pull/832) 
 
 ## [1.5.2] - 2018-11-25
 
diff --git a/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Ods.php b/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Ods.php
index 2fb4b7f8..0941f035 100644
--- a/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Ods.php
+++ b/src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Ods.php
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ class Ods extends BaseReader
                                     $mergeSize = $xml->getAttribute('table:number-columns-repeated');
                                     $currCells += (int) $mergeSize;
                                     $xml->read();
+                                } else {
+                                    $xml->read();
                                 }
                             } while ($xml->name != 'table:table-row');
                         }