ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when using "SELECT EXISTS" with a long string argument

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 302

	at org.mariadb.jdbc.client.impl.StandardReadableByteBuf.readShort(StandardReadableByteBuf.java:141)

	at org.mariadb.jdbc.message.server.ColumnDefinitionPacket.<init>(ColumnDefinitionPacket.java:106)

	at org.mariadb.jdbc.message.ClientMessage.readPacket(ClientMessage.java:198)

	at org.mariadb.jdbc.client.impl.StandardClient.readPacket(StandardClient.java:815)

	at org.mariadb.jdbc.client.impl.StandardClient.readResults(StandardClient.java:754)

	at org.mariadb.jdbc.client.impl.StandardClient.readResponse(StandardClient.java:673)

	at org.mariadb.jdbc.client.impl.StandardClient.execute(StandardClient.java:616)

	at org.mariadb.jdbc.ClientPreparedStatement.executeInternal(ClientPreparedStatement.java:93)

	at org.mariadb.jdbc.ClientPreparedStatement.executeQuery(ClientPreparedStatement.java:276)

	at org.apache.commons.dbcp2.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeQuery(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:122)

	at org.apache.commons.dbcp2.DelegatingPreparedStatement.executeQuery(DelegatingPreparedStatement.java:122)

CREATE TABLE test (

  field varchar(300) NOT NULL

);

    ...

    Connection conn = dataSource.getConnection();

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    String sQuery = "SELECT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM test WHERE ((field=?)))";

    for (int i = 1; i <= 300; i++) {

      sb.append("a");

      if (i < 204) {

        continue;

      }

      PreparedStatement stmt = conn.prepareStatement(sQuery);

      stmt.setString(1, sb.toString());

      try {

        ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery();

        rset.close();

      }

      catch (Exception e) {

        System.out.println("Error " + e.getMessage() + " when i=" + i);

        e.printStackTrace();

        break;

      }

      finally {

        stmt.close();

      }

    }

    conn.close();