Security vulnerabilities and automated fixes for strcat issues
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A critical stack buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered and patched in `binding/shared/console.c`, where an unchecked `strcat()` call concatenating file path components into a fixed-size stack buffer could allow attackers to overwrite the return address and achieve arbitrary code execution. This class of vulnerability — CWE-120, also known as a "Classic Buffer Overflow" — is one of the oldest and most dangerous bugs in systems programming, and its presence in a shared binding layer makes i