NPE viewing issue with no selected project

When entering a number (ie 417) to view (in the View Issue # box), the following exception occurs if there is no currently selected project.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.issue.ViewIssue.getProject(ViewIssue.java:121)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.issue.ViewIssue.doExecute(ViewIssue.java:93)
at webwork.action.ActionSupport.execute(ActionSupport.java:81)
at webwork.dispatcher.ServletDispatcher.service(ServletDispatcher.java:185)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:336)
at com.evermind[Orion/1.5.4 (build 10585)]._ie.doFilter(.:59)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(Unknown Source)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(Unknown Source)
at com.evermind[Orion/1.5.4 (build 10585)]._ic.doFilter(.:16)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.security.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:201)
at com.evermind[Orion/1.5.4 (build 10585)]._ic.doFilter(.:20)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.security.LoginFilter.doFilter(LoginFilter.java:189)
at com.evermind[Orion/1.5.4 (build 10585)]._ic.doFilter(.:20)
at com.atlassian.util.filters.ProfilingFilter.doFilter(Unknown Source)
at com.evermind[Orion/1.5.4 (build 10585)]._deb._lnc(.:376)
at com.evermind[Orion/1.5.4 (build 10585)]._deb._wmb(.:170)
at com.evermind[Orion/1.5.4 (build 10585)]._co._wbb(.:581)
at com.evermind[Orion/1.5.4 (build 10585)]._co._fs(.:189)
at com.evermind[Orion/1.5.4 (build 10585)]._bt.run(.:62)