diff --git a/src/core/xref.js b/src/core/xref.js
index 6f1190bd7c294..ace4196578246 100644
--- a/src/core/xref.js
+++ b/src/core/xref.js
@@ -665,8 +665,8 @@ class XRef {
     // circular dependency between tables (fixes bug1393476.pdf).
     const startXRefParsedCache = new Set();
 
-    try {
-      while (this.startXRefQueue.length) {
+    while (this.startXRefQueue.length) {
+      try {
         const startXRef = this.startXRefQueue[0];
 
         if (startXRefParsedCache.has(startXRef)) {
@@ -734,20 +734,18 @@ class XRef {
           // This is a fallback for non-compliant PDFs, i.e. "/Prev NNN 0 R"
           this.startXRefQueue.push(obj.num);
         }
-
-        this.startXRefQueue.shift();
-      }
-
-      return this.topDict;
-    } catch (e) {
-      if (e instanceof MissingDataException) {
-        throw e;
+      } catch (e) {
+        if (e instanceof MissingDataException) {
+          throw e;
+        }
+        info("(while reading XRef): " + e);
       }
-      info("(while reading XRef): " + e);
-
       this.startXRefQueue.shift();
     }
 
+    if (this.topDict) {
+      return this.topDict;
+    }
     if (recoveryMode) {
       return undefined;
     }
diff --git a/test/pdfs/issue15833.pdf.link b/test/pdfs/issue15833.pdf.link
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..71adf734b587f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/pdfs/issue15833.pdf.link
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/files/10236962/issue15833.pdf
diff --git a/test/test_manifest.json b/test/test_manifest.json
index a2f856e5b2e08..b4b28fd87060e 100644
--- a/test/test_manifest.json
+++ b/test/test_manifest.json
@@ -3522,6 +3522,14 @@
          "37R": false
        }
     },
+    {  "id": "issue15833",
+       "file": "pdfs/issue15833.pdf",
+       "md5": "9562d027b980ea2779dcfb1669f9cf7e",
+       "link": true,
+       "rounds": 1,
+       "lastPage": 1,
+       "type": "eq"
+    },
     {  "id": "issue11242",
        "file": "pdfs/issue11242_reduced.pdf",
        "md5": "ba50b6ee537f3e815ccfe0c99e598e05",