diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index bdeccf85..d8c75e58 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Red Panda C++ Version 2.23
   - fix: "typedef struct" that don't have definition of the struct is not correctly parsed.
   - enhancement: correctly highlight multiline raw string literals.
   - change: remove "Assembly" color scheme item (it's not used anymore).
+  - fix: crash when parsing files containing inline assembly code.
 
 Red Panda C++ Version 2.22
 
diff --git a/RedPandaIDE/parser/cppparser.cpp b/RedPandaIDE/parser/cppparser.cpp
index d33f5109..395774ac 100644
--- a/RedPandaIDE/parser/cppparser.cpp
+++ b/RedPandaIDE/parser/cppparser.cpp
@@ -5904,7 +5904,7 @@ int CppParser::indexPassParenthesis(int index)
 int CppParser::indexPassBraces(int index)
 {
     int tokenCount = mTokenizer.tokenCount();
-    while (tokenCount) {
+    while (index<tokenCount) {
         switch(mTokenizer[index]->text[0].unicode()) {
         case '{':
             return mTokenizer[index]->matchIndex+1;