diff --git a/.config/nextest.toml b/.config/nextest.toml
index 8d1ce5a2696..03ba154a7ee 100644
--- a/.config/nextest.toml
+++ b/.config/nextest.toml
@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@ slow-timeout = { period = "1m", terminate-after = 5 }
 filter = 'package(ethexe-service)'
 leak-timeout = { period = "10s", result = "pass" }
 
+# gear-lazy-pages pulls in wasm execution vm + mach exception ports on
+# Apple Silicon; their teardown at process exit occasionally exceeds
+# the default 5s leak window on busy macos-aarch64 runners and trips
+# trivial tests like pages::tests::end_offset as LEAK-FAIL. Same fix
+# pattern as ethexe-service: 10s window with result = pass.
+[[profile.default.overrides]]
+filter = 'package(gear-lazy-pages)'
+leak-timeout = { period = "10s", result = "pass" }
+
 [profile.default.junit]
 path = "junit.xml"
 store-success-output = false