For me it turned out to be a corrupted dependency as well.
I did not want to go through the process of setting up the debugger, so decided to look for files containing \u0000 in my ~/.m2 directory by running:
grep -rnw ~/.m2 -e '\u0000'
after that you will get the files which are corrupted, delete those files and then build the maven.
Note that you have to specify your repository folder if you configured it different to the default. Read your ~/.m2/settings.xml and use the value from localRepository instead. E.g.:
<settings>
<localRepository>/else/where</localRepository>
use:
grep -rnw /else/where -e '\u0000'
and if you want all these files removed, pipe the file names to xargs rm:
grep -lrnw /else/where -e '\u0000' | xargs rm