Upgrading openssl in cpanel is considered dangerous as it breaks the system

We tried in one of our system and came out in flying colors … yes we were able to upgrade susccessfully

We upgraded to openssl 1.0 version for cpanel

below are the steps

tar -xvzf openssl-1.0.0d.tar.gz

cd openssl-1.0.0d
./configure
make

make test
make install

cd include/openssl
cp  -r * /usr/include
cp  -r * /usr/local/ssl/include
cp -r * /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl

cp -r lib* /usr/local/ssl/lib/
cp -r lib* /usr/lib/

When this is complete enter command  ldconfig

now you can open /etc/yum.conf and add in excluded list openssl*

Now run easyapache and all should work fine