diff --git a/Core/Dialog/SavedataParam.cpp b/Core/Dialog/SavedataParam.cpp
index fc944483ee2d..c9533f2f6850 100644
--- a/Core/Dialog/SavedataParam.cpp
+++ b/Core/Dialog/SavedataParam.cpp
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ int SavedataParam::Save(SceUtilitySavedataParam* param, const std::string &saveD
 		u8 *data_ = param->dataBuf;
 
 		int aligned_len = align16(cryptedSize);
-		cryptedData = new u8[aligned_len + 0x10];
+		cryptedData = new u8[aligned_len + 0x10]{};
 		memcpy(cryptedData, data_, cryptedSize);
 
 		int decryptMode = DetermineCryptMode(param);
diff --git a/Core/ELF/ParamSFO.cpp b/Core/ELF/ParamSFO.cpp
index bbd14ca45460..856221d36c5e 100644
--- a/Core/ELF/ParamSFO.cpp
+++ b/Core/ELF/ParamSFO.cpp
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ int ParamSFOData::GetDataOffset(const u8 *paramsfo, const std::string &dataName)
 	return -1;
 }
 
-bool ParamSFOData::WriteSFO(u8 **paramsfo, size_t *size) const {
+void ParamSFOData::WriteSFO(u8 **paramsfo, size_t *size) const {
 	size_t total_size = 0;
 	size_t key_size = 0;
 	size_t data_size = 0;
@@ -251,9 +251,10 @@ bool ParamSFOData::WriteSFO(u8 **paramsfo, size_t *size) const {
 	total_size += data_size;
 	*size = total_size;
 
-	u8* data = new u8[total_size];
+	size_t aligned_size = (total_size + 15) & ~15;
+	u8* data = new u8[aligned_size];
 	*paramsfo = data;
-	memset(data, 0, total_size);
+	memset(data, 0, aligned_size);
 	memcpy(data, &header, sizeof(Header));
 
 	// Now fill
@@ -300,8 +301,6 @@ bool ParamSFOData::WriteSFO(u8 **paramsfo, size_t *size) const {
 		index_ptr++;
 
 	}
-
-	return true;
 }
 
 void ParamSFOData::Clear() {
diff --git a/Core/ELF/ParamSFO.h b/Core/ELF/ParamSFO.h
index 23af2f0c3ffb..3d7a719e5002 100644
--- a/Core/ELF/ParamSFO.h
+++ b/Core/ELF/ParamSFO.h
@@ -42,9 +42,11 @@ class ParamSFOData
 
 	std::string GetDiscID();
 
-	bool ReadSFO(const u8 *paramsfo, size_t size);
-	bool WriteSFO(u8 **paramsfo, size_t *size) const;
+	// This allocates a buffer (*paramsfo) using new[], whose size is zero-filled up to a multiple of 16 bytes.
+	// This is required for SavedataParam::BuildHash.
+	void WriteSFO(u8 **paramsfo, size_t *size) const;
 
+	bool ReadSFO(const u8 *paramsfo, size_t size);
 	bool ReadSFO(const std::vector<u8> &paramsfo) {
 		if (!paramsfo.empty()) {
 			return ReadSFO(&paramsfo[0], paramsfo.size());