[openssl-users] Applying security patches to 0.9.8a

[Salz, Rich]

>    I have an application that runs on an old OS that currently has
    OpenSSL 0.9.8a

So you should be able to compile and install the last 0.9.8 release, https://www.openssl.org/source/old/0.9.x/openssl-0.9.8zc.tar.gz  Note that this is more than two years old.  Many fixes have happened since then.
 
Good luck.