Possible 26.2 memory leak regression in Network, when multiple NEXT active

Hi, After the release of macOS Tahoe 26.2. We are seeing memory leaks if our Network Protection Extension is used alongside the Apple Built In Firewall, a second Security Solution that does Network Protection and a VPN. Our NEXT, socketfilterfw and the other security solution consume instead of a few MB of Memory now multiple Gigabytes of Memory. This issue started with the public release of macOS Tahoe 26.2, this issue was not present in earlier versions of macOS and the same set of Software. Just testing our solution by itself will not show this behavior. I unfortunately can't try to reproduce the issue on my test device that runs the latest 26.3 beta as I do not have the third party software installed there and I can't get it.

Our Network extension implements depending on the license and enabled features:

• NEFilterDataProvider
• NEDNSProxyProvider
• NETransparentProxyProvider

For all man in the middle Use Cases we are using Network Framework, to communicate with the peers. And leaks suggest that the there is a memory leak within internals of the Network Framework.

Here is a shortened sample of the leaks output of our Network extension. However, the third party NEXT does show the same leaks. More details can be found on the Feedback with the ID FB21649104

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Does anyone see similar issues or has an idea what could cause this issue, except a regression of the Network.framework introduced with macOS Tahoe 26.2?

Best Regards, Timo