Hi Roman,
On parsing of manifest in PE module is possible access to zero address and crash. It's happens because not all manifest attributes can be specified and pointers in assembly_identity structure can be uninitialized. This patch adds function for setting empty strings in structure elements when they not initialized.
Your patch looks like a workaround. You should fix the code to cope with NULL pointers correctly instead of allocating useless empty strings. Also initialize_assembly_identity doesn't make sense. ai is initialized a few lines later by memset call.
Jacek
