[JENKINS-37664] Immediately throw an EOF in a boundary error condition

[jglick]

JENKINS-37664

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[oleg-nenashev]

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We may likely need a stable stapler 1.243.x branch since the master 1.244 release is borked.
This fix likely deserves backporting, but I'm not sure 1.244 features are safe enough.

[svanoort]

I 🐝 lieve this looks reasonable

[jglick]

This fix likely deserves backporting

Not sure. I believe I am now working around it in the reported case in jenkinsci/workflow-job-plugin#18. Of course there could be other cases where this method is called with an illegally large argument, but if these are not being reported as a problem by users then we do not need to backport it aggressively.