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CWE-586Explicit Call to Finalize()

Category: other

Description

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.

Common consequences· 1

  • Integrity / Other — Unexpected State, Quality Degradation

Potential mitigations· 1

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

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/586.html

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

CWE
finalize() Method Without super.finalize()
CWE
Use of Object without Invoking Destructor Method
CWE
finalize() Method Declared Public
CWE
Return Inside Finally Block
CWE
Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime
CWE
Public Static Field Not Marked Final
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.