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A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework

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224 points chmaynard | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 13:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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lapcat ◴[14 Nov 24 14:00 UTC] No.42136194[source]▶
See also yesterday's "Apple’s built-in macOS firewall breaks third-party firewalls" https://obdev.at/blog/apples-built-in-macos-firewall-breaks-...
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isodev ◴[14 Nov 24 15:28 UTC] No.42137126[source]▶
> For the time being, until Apple fixes this serious bug in macOS, we therefore highly recommend to turn off the built-in firewall of macOS when also using Little Snitch or Little Snitch Mini.

I remember back in the day when installing two firewalls or two antivirus programs on Windows would break it, so it will have to be reinstalled. That was 20 years ago, though, one would think we're better at making an OS by now.

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1. toast0 ◴[14 Nov 24 17:42 UTC] No.42138819[source]▶
I mean... sounds like we are if you only have to turn off one of the firewalls and not reinstall. I think ancient windows firewalls would routinely replace the system networking driver files, and that's why things got really messy. At least we're beyond that.