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Test case 98896

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CWE: 400 Resource Exhaustion
BadSource: fscanf Read data from the console using fscanf()
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: 53 Data flow: data passed as an argument from one function through two others to a fourth; all four functions are in different source files

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