Setting high severity/priority. OpenSSL dropped support for 0.9.8 on Dec 31st, 2015.
https://www.openssl.org/policies/releasestrat.html:
"Support for version 0.9.8 will cease on 2015-12-31. No further releases of 0.9.8 will be made after that date. Security fixes only will be applied to 0.9.8 until then."