{"id":45782,"date":"2024-11-14T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T19:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=45782"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T19:58:33","slug":"sequoia-network-extension-memory-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/14\/sequoia-network-extension-memory-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequoia Network Extension Memory Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/obdev.at\/blog\/a-memory-leak-in-apples-network-extension-framework\/\">Norbert Heger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/obdev.at\/blog\/a-memory-leak-in-apples-network-extension-framework\/\">\n<p>Unfortunately that&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/obdev.at\/blog\/apples-built-in-macos-firewall-breaks-third-party-firewalls\/\">another<\/a> new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It&rsquo;s a memory leak in Apple&rsquo;s framework, which developers must use to create a firewall for the Mac. This bug first occurred in macOS 15.0 Sequoia.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>On macOS 14 Sonoma you may get a hand full of leaks with a total of a few Kilobytes. That&rsquo;s OK (sort of). But on macOS 15 Sequoia this can easily grow to hundreds of Megabytes and more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/13\/macos-15-1-firewall-breaks-third-party-firewalls\/\">macOS 15.1 Firewall Breaks Third-Party Firewalls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/networking-issues-in-sequoia\/\">Networking Issues in Sequoia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/18\/macos-firewall-regressions-in-sequoia\/\">macOS Firewall Regressions in Sequoia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/17\/little-snitch-6-and-dns-encryption\/\">Little Snitch 6 and DNS Encryption<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/macos-15-sequoia\/\">macOS 15 Sequoia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Heger: Unfortunately that&rsquo;s another new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It&rsquo;s a memory leak in Apple&rsquo;s framework, which developers must use to create a firewall for the Mac. This bug first occurred in macOS 15.0 Sequoia. [&#8230;] On macOS 14 Sonoma you may get a hand full of leaks with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-11-14T19:58:38Z","apple_news_api_id":"f37910a0-10d2-47e0-ba0b-ab3f31705fa4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-11-14T19:58:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A83kQoBDSR-C6C6s_MXBfpA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,1204,139,30,2598,571,2688,476],"class_list":["post-45782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-firewall","tag-littlesnitch","tag-mac","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-memory-management","tag-network-extensions","tag-networking"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45783,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45782\/revisions\/45783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}