(for 4.9.3) CVE-2018-14879/fix -V to fail invalid input safely

get_next_file() did not check the return value of strlen() and
underflowed an array index if the line read by fgets() from the file
started with \0. This caused an out-of-bounds read and could cause a
write. Add the missing check.

This vulnerability was discovered by Brian Carpenter & Geeknik Labs.