While trying to print an eight character long name, which of the following will introduce a security vulnerability ?

printf ("%.8s",name); /* 1 */
printf (name);  /* 2 */ 
printf ("%s",name);  /* 3 */ 
printf ("%8c", name);  /* 4 */

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