diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 89afa174910f..c404edb308a7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 - [[PR 1004]](https://github.com/parthenon-hpc-lab/parthenon/pull/1004) Allow parameter modification from an input file for restarts
 
 ### Fixed (not changing behavior/API/variables/...)
+- [[PR 1152]](https://github.com/parthenon-hpc-lab/parthenon/pull/1152) Fix memory leak in task graph outputs related to `abi::__cxa_demangle`
 - [[PR 1146]](https://github.com/parthenon-hpc-lab/parthenon/pull/1146) Fix an issue outputting >4GB single variables per rank
 - [[PR 1144]](https://github.com/parthenon-hpc-lab/parthenon/pull/1144) Fix some restarts w/non-CC fields
 - [[PR 1132]](https://github.com/parthenon-hpc-lab/parthenon/pull/1132) Fix regional dependencies for iterative task lists and make solvers work for arbirtrary MeshData partitioning
diff --git a/src/tasks/tasks.hpp b/src/tasks/tasks.hpp
index 21c85c317c79..91b9e103d6aa 100644
--- a/src/tasks/tasks.hpp
+++ b/src/tasks/tasks.hpp
@@ -503,8 +503,10 @@ class TaskList {
     if (!label.has_value()) label = "anon";
 #ifdef HAS_CXX_ABI
     int status;
-    auto signature =
-        std::string(abi::__cxa_demangle(typeid(F).name(), NULL, NULL, &status));
+    // _cxa_demangle calls malloc so we must call free
+    char *signature_name = abi::__cxa_demangle(typeid(F).name(), NULL, NULL, &status);
+    auto signature = std::string(signature_name);
+    std::free(signature_name);
 #else
     std::string signature = " (...)";
 #endif