CWE-586: Explicit Call to Finalize()

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

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Extended Description

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.

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