# memory leak

> type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations

**Wikidata**: [Q751740](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q751740)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/memory-leak


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [Source](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/xml/cwec_latest.xml.zip)
3. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)