CWE-586

Explicit Call to Finalize()

Base

What it is

The product makes an explicit call to the finalize() method from outside the finalizer.

While the Java Language Specification allows an object's finalize() method to be called from outside the finalizer, doing so is usually a bad idea. For example, calling finalize() explicitly means that finalize() will be called more than once: the first time will be the explicit call and the last time will be the call that is made after the object is garbage collected.

Impact

Integrity, Other

Unexpected State, Quality Degradation

Mitigations

[Implementation] Do not make explicit calls to finalize().

Related weaknesses

CWE-1076 (childof)

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Source: MITRE CWE. View on cwe.mitre.org →