"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-8461 for the project FFmpeg , site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix an out-of-bounds write in the MagicYUV decoder (libavcodec/magicyuv.c) caused by improper bounds checking, resulting in heap corruption, denial of service, and potential remote code execution when…