Cherry-pick f2e844

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commit f2e844e917c30e02cce387e3ebae68f97e96a8af
Author: sumit.ray@baesystems.com <sumit.ray@baesystems.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 11 12:56:13 2022 -0500

    Added a guard and cause the program to exit gracefully if the required Size field is missing or malformed.