diff --git a/cocos/2d/CCFontFNT.cpp b/cocos/2d/CCFontFNT.cpp
index 4a314d24e0..e02fe2d080 100644
--- a/cocos/2d/CCFontFNT.cpp
+++ b/cocos/2d/CCFontFNT.cpp
@@ -274,39 +274,22 @@ void BMFontConfiguration::purgeFontDefDictionary()
 
 std::set<unsigned int>* BMFontConfiguration::parseConfigFile(const std::string& controlFile)
 {
-    Data data = FileUtils::getInstance()->getDataFromFile(controlFile);
-    CCASSERT((!data.isNull()), "BMFontConfiguration::parseConfigFile | Open file error.");
-    if (data.isNull()) {
+    std::string data;
+    if (FileUtils::getInstance()->getContents(controlFile, &data) != FileUtils::Status::OK || data.empty())
+    {
         return nullptr;
     }
-
-    if (memcmp("BMF", data.getBytes(), 3) == 0) {
+    if (data.size() >= (sizeof("BMP") - 1) && memcmp("BMF", data.c_str(), sizeof("BMP") - 1) == 0) {
         // Handle fnt file of binary format
-        std::set<unsigned int>* ret = parseBinaryConfigFile(data.getBytes(), data.getSize(), controlFile);
+        std::set<unsigned int>* ret = parseBinaryConfigFile((unsigned char*)&data.front(), data.size(), controlFile);
         return ret;
     }
-
-    if (data.getBytes()[0] == 0)
+    if (data[0] == 0)
     {
         CCLOG("cocos2d: Error parsing FNTfile %s", controlFile.c_str());
         return nullptr;
     }
-    
-    // Handle fnt file of string format, allocate one extra byte '\0' at the end since c string needs it.
-    // 'strchr' finds a char until it gets a '\0', if 'contents' self doesn't end with '\0',
-    // 'strchr' will search '\n' out of 'contents' 's buffer size, it will trigger potential and random crashes since
-    // lineLength may bigger than 512 and 'memcpy(line, contents + parseCount, lineLength);' will cause stack buffer overflow.
-    // Please note that 'contents' needs to be freed before this function returns.
-    auto contents = (char*)malloc(data.getSize() + 1);
-    if (contents == nullptr)
-    {
-        CCLOGERROR("BMFontConfiguration::parseConfigFile, out of memory!");
-        return nullptr;
-    }
-    
-    memcpy(contents, data.getBytes(), data.getSize());
-    // Ensure the last byte is '\0'
-    contents[data.getSize()] = '\0';
+    auto contents = data.c_str();
     
     std::set<unsigned int> *validCharsString = new (std::nothrow) std::set<unsigned int>();