Had this strange issue crop up today that I haven't experienced before. I execute ssh <remote ip>
and ssh crashes with the following exception:
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _timingsafe_bcmp
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/ssh
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
dyld: Symbol not found: _timingsafe_bcmp
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/ssh
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
Abort trap: 6
I have run the command with the verbose flag and can see this is happening directly after the key exchange between the local machine and remote host.
Things I have tried:
- Restarting terminal
- Restarting machine
- Removing all ssh programs in /usr/bin and replacing them with those of a colleagues mac
- Booting to recovery mode and replacing libSystem.B.dylib with the one that ships with macOS
- Installing openssh with homebrew
- Removing openssh
- Adding a PATH to /usr/bin
Note the same error appears on other commands such as scp
.
Best Answer
Assuming that you're (probably) using homebrew's
ssh
, I found this reported bug in the openssh formula, which apparently can be fixed by upgrading macOS to 10.12.3: