fix: option to limit max vulnerable paths per vuln

[cmars]

In CLI-261 an out-of-memory condition occurs when trying to report SCA
findings on a container test. This happens due to an unusually large
number of dependency paths to some vulnerabilities.

Such a large number of paths is unlikely to be useful or helpful.

If the user has specifically requested all vulnerable paths with
--show-vulnerable-paths=all, this takes precedence and the limit is
ignored.

Otherwise the user may opt-in to limiting the max number of vulnerable paths
with --max-vulnerable-paths=N.

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See also CLI-261

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Try testing a container image that normally OOMs with --max-vulnerable-paths=10

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