Don't allow fragmented alerts
An alert message is 2 bytes long. In theory it is permissible in SSLv3 - TLSv1.2 to fragment such alerts across multiple records (some of which could be empty). In practice it make no sense to send an empty alert record, or to fragment one. TLSv1.3 prohibts this altogether and other libraries (BoringSSL, NSS) do not support this at all. Supporting it adds significant complexity to the record layer, and its removal is unlikely to cause inter-operability issues. The DTLS code for this never worked anyway and it is not supported at a protocol level for DTLS. Similarly fragmented DTLS handshake records only work at a protocol level where at least the handshake message header exists within the record. DTLS code existed for trying to handle fragmented handshake records smaller than this size. This code didn't work either so has also been removed. Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3476)
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