diff -r 219585efb03c -r 2ea3667af41d src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/imageio/plugins/jpeg/JPEGImageReader.java
--- a/src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/imageio/plugins/jpeg/JPEGImageReader.java	Mon Jan 08 08:53:14 2018 -0800
+++ b/src/java.desktop/share/classes/com/sun/imageio/plugins/jpeg/JPEGImageReader.java	Wed Jan 10 12:45:14 2018 +0530
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -374,7 +374,10 @@
             // And set current image since we've read it now
             currentImage = 0;
         }
-        if (seekForwardOnly) {
+        // If the image positions list is empty as in the case of a tables-only
+        // stream, then attempting to access the element at index
+        // imagePositions.size() - 1 will cause an IndexOutOfBoundsException.
+        if (seekForwardOnly && !imagePositions.isEmpty()) {
             Long pos = imagePositions.get(imagePositions.size()-1);
             iis.flushBefore(pos.longValue());
         }
@@ -492,6 +495,11 @@
         if (!tablesOnlyChecked) {
             checkTablesOnly();
         }
+        // If the image positions list is empty as in the case of a tables-only
+        // stream, then no image data can be read.
+        if (imagePositions.isEmpty()) {
+            throw new IIOException("No image data present to read");
+        }
         if (imageIndex < imagePositions.size()) {
             iis.seek(imagePositions.get(imageIndex).longValue());
         } else {