What statement describes a memory leak vulnerability?

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A pointer with a value of NULL is used as if it pointed to a valid memory area.

A program captures the contents of memory in periodic intervals and saves the contents for later access.

A process attempts to store data in RAM beyond the boundaries of a fixed-length storage buffer.

An application dynamically allocates memory but does not free that memory when finished using it.

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The statement that describes a memory leak vulnerability is:

An application dynamically allocates memory but does not free that memory when finished using it.

This accurately reflects the essence of a memory leak, where memory that is no longer needed is not released, potentially leading to increased memory usage over time and eventually exhausting available memory resources.