diff --git a/source/blender/blenlib/intern/path_util.c b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/path_util.c
index fa77b2138da..05b1bc5fca7 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenlib/intern/path_util.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/path_util.c
@@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ void BLI_where_am_i(char *fullname, const char *name)
 	/* linux uses binreloc since argv[0] is not relyable, call br_init( NULL ) first */
 	path = br_find_exe( NULL );
 	if (path) {
-		strcpy(fullname, path);
+		BLI_strncpy(fullname, path, sizeof(fullname));
 		free(path);
 		return;
 	}