When you update OpenSSL, the software that currently has the ssl libraries loaded in memory do not automatically load the updated libraries.

A full system reboot resolves that problem, but sometimes that is not possible.

This command shows you all the software that has loaded the libraries, allowing you to restart only those services.

If you don't restart or reload after an update, the software might still be vulnerable to issues that the update fixed.

Make sure you have the lsof command installed.

Using the following command you get a list of services currently using libssl:

lsof | grep libssl | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq

This is the output:

directadm
exim
httpd
imap-logi
managesie
nrpe
php
pop3-logi
pure-ftpd
spamd

Not all the filenames are complete but you can fill those in. If you leave out the last part of the command you can also see which specific library is in use:

lsof | grep libssl

Example output:

imap-logi   449   dovecot  mem       REG              202,1    539869      85375 /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0
httpd       876    apache  mem       REG              202,1    539869      85375 /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0  
[...]
spamd     13513      root  mem       REG              202,1    444168      85398 /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.1e

Here you can see some services using a different library, those still need a restart.

Find all updated libraries and services using the old ones:

lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u