Articles by Madimodi Diawara

This article presents the structure of the Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) file format, a binary file designed to define and securely launch the initial state of a virtual machine. It bundles all necessary components such as the BIOS/OVMF, kernel, and initial ramdisk, into a single file. We'll focus on a concrete example to understand the main structure of the file format.

On August 20th, Apple released an out-of-band security fix for its main operating systems. This patch allegedly fixes CVE-2025-43300, an out-of-bounds write, addressed with improved bounds checking in the ImageIO framework. In this blog post we provide a root cause analysis of the vulnerability.