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Test case 98740

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CWE: 400 Resource Exhaustion
BadSource: fgets Read data from the console using fgets()
GoodSource: Assign count to be a relatively small number
Sinks: sleep
GoodSink: Validate count before using it as a parameter in sleep function
BadSink : Use count as the parameter for sleep withhout checking its size first
Flow Variant: 22 Control flow: Flow controlled by value of a global variable. Sink functions are in a separate file from sources.

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