3 posts tagged ‘Firewall’
Sequoia Network Extension Memory Leak
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Norbert Heger: Unfortunately that’s another new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It’s a memory leak in Apple’s framework, which developers must use to create a firewall for the Mac. This bug first occurred in macOS 15.0 Sequoia. […] On macOS 14 Sonoma you may get a hand full of leaks with a […]
macOS 15.1 Firewall Breaks Third-Party Firewalls
Norbert Heger: Apple’s built-in firewall is causing troubles when used together with third-party firewalls that are based on Apple’s Network Extension framework (which is actually the only way for third-party developers to create such firewall products for the Mac). While one of the issues related to DNS lookups has been fixed in macOS 15.1, a […]
Leaky macOS VPN After System Update
Mullvad VPN (Hacker News): We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.In this scenario the macOS firewall does not seem to function correctly and is disregarding firewall rules. Most […]