Bug 247251

Description of problem:
From security point of view it makes not much sense to update supplied libraries
all the time without restarting the programs which uses this libraries, because
still the old library code would be used and e.g. a network service can be still
exploitable. Reboot after each library update is overkill.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
all current version

How reproducible:
After each library package update

Steps to Reproduce:
Update e.g. on a systems krb5-libs
Take a look on open but deleted files

Actual results:
You will see that programs (e.g. daemons listening on network sockets) still
using the old but deleted library.

Expected results:
rpm at least suggest to restart related programs.

Additional info:
I've created now a cron job, which does this check on regular basis all days and
suggest me a list of services to restart or to reboot the system, if nothing
else would help.

Take this solution as start for discussion, how to solve this issue completly.

For middle term, perhaps every library package can get an additional program
call which (if exists) run the open-but-deleted-file check and automagically
suggests the services which should be restarted.
In case of using yum or up2date, this should only run once after the upgrade, so
the additional program has to detect, whether it was called by postinstall from
standalone rpm usage or triggered via yum|up2date->rpm->postinstall


I've created a rpm package for that and additional checks:
ftp://ftp.aerasec.de/pub/linux/repository/public/redhat/enterprise/4ES/SRPMS/rpm-check-0.3.1-1.RHEL4.AERAsec.1.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.aerasec.de/pub/linux/repository/public/redhat/enterprise/4ES/i386/rpm-check-0.3.1-1.RHEL4.AERAsec.1.noarch.rpm

cron.daily/rpm-check-updates.cron:
Checks for available packages, if automatic update is not active, search for
open but deleted files and check latest installed against running kernel version.

cron.weekly/rpm-list-extras.cron
Checks for packages which are not covered by yum or up2date channels - so
administrator have to look for updates manually here