diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index dcd2c205c..f7fdae950 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Runrioter Wung <runrioter at gmail.com>
 Soroush Pour <me at soroushjp.com>
 Xiaobing Jiang <s7v7nislands at gmail.com>
 Xiuming Chen <cc at cxm.cc>
+Stan Putrya <root.vagner at gmail.com>
 
 # Organizations
 
diff --git a/utils.go b/utils.go
index 9c97cc89c..6a26ad129 100644
--- a/utils.go
+++ b/utils.go
@@ -777,6 +777,10 @@ func skipLengthEncodedString(b []byte) (int, error) {
 
 // returns the number read, whether the value is NULL and the number of bytes read
 func readLengthEncodedInteger(b []byte) (uint64, bool, int) {
+	// See issue #349
+	if len(b) == 0 {
+		return 0, true, 1
+	}
 	switch b[0] {
 
 	// 251: NULL