CWE-785: Use of Path Manipulation Function without Maximum-sized Buffer

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The product invokes a function for normalizing paths or file names, but it provides an output buffer that is smaller than the maximum possible size, such as PATH_MAX.

What the weakness is: CWE-785 at MITRE. All weaknesses

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