Right-clicking a shulker box with a debug stick in the hand in multiplayer, kicks you out of the server

Right-clicking a shulker box with a debug stick in the hand in multiplayer, kicks you out of the server.
Minecraft says:
Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: java.io.IOException: Packet 0/10 (ho) was larger than I expected, found 1 bytes extra whist reading packet 10