The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.
Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone. For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers. When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391]. To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.
Use an abstraction library to abstract away risky APIs. Not a complete solution.
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser Garbage Collector or valgrind can be used to detect leaks in code.
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