Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 8, 2026

CVE-2026-107696

Description

FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in ff_rtsp_connect() in libavformat/rtsp.c that follows RTSP 3xx redirects without any redirect limit. Attackers controlling an RTSP server can answer every request with a 302 redirect to itself or another server, causing endless reconnects that saturate a CPU core.

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Affected products

MPlayer/Mplayerreferences
FFmpeg/Ffmpegllm-fuzzy
Range: <9.0.2

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References

code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/24902nvd
gist.github.com/OxBat/648a0bd60c898f2ffb418e131ce26013nvd
github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0.2/libavformat/rtsp.cnvd
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-through-9.0.2-infinite-loop-via-rtsp-redirect-handling-in-rtsp-cnvd

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