readelf -d recursion
redelf -d produces similar output to objdump -p which was mentioned at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15520982/895245
But beware that dynamic libraries can depend on other dynamic libraries, to you have to recurse.
Example:
readelf -d /bin/ls | grep 'NEEDED'
Sample ouptut:
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libselinux.so.1]
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libacl.so.1]
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6]
Then:
$ locate libselinux.so.1
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
/mnt/debootstrap/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
Choose one, and repeat:
readelf -d /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1 | grep 'NEEDED'
Sample output:
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libpcre.so.3]
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libdl.so.2]
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6]
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [ld-linux-x86-64.so.2]
And so on.
/proc//maps for running processes
This is useful to find all the libraries currently being used by running executables. E.g.:
sudo awk '/\.so/{print $6}' /proc/1/maps | sort -u
shows all currently loaded dynamic dependencies of init (PID 1):
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapparmor.so.1.4.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaudit.so.1.0.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblkid.so.1.1.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2.24
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.23.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkmod.so.2.3.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmount.so.1.1.0
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpam.so.0.83.1
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.2
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt-2.23.so
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libseccomp.so.2.2.3
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1.3.0
This method also shows libraries opened with dlopen, tested with this minimal setup hacked up with a sleep(1000) on Ubuntu 18.04.