*sigh*. Well thanks for checking anyway.
To be fair OpenSSL don't seem to be taking security seriously, this should have been caught by static analysis… except that code only gets submitted to Coverity sporadically, and they don't like using it because of the high rate of false positives.
Well, to be fair, the bloke who responded is a release engineer for Fedora, not a package maintainer… I'd guess the OpenSSL package maintainers have to make the call. Despite that, I hear your pain. I had the… *ahem* misfortune of working with OpenSSL on Windows. *sigh* Stefan -- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the e-mail. Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom