Problem with OpenSSL conf file

[Sanjay Rai]

Hi
  I am having an issue when I try OpenSSL initialization with corrupt 
configuration file. It basically kills my application, which should not be the 
case. Is there any way I can avoid this?

Here is how I can repro this issue

1-      Create a new file openssl.cf file with simply entry "aaa". This is 
corrupt conf file.

2-      Set OPENSSL_CONF env for above file

3-      Run the code.

Result
The application terminate because there is exit(1) code in  "OPENSSL_config()" 
function.
Is there any way I can avoid termination of my application and get an error?
I think It should return an error saying "Initialization failed".

Code
void OPENSSL_config(const char *config_name)
       {
       if (openssl_configured)
              return;

       OPENSSL_load_builtin_modules();
#ifndef OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE
       /* Need to load ENGINEs */
       ENGINE_load_builtin_engines();
#endif
       /* Add others here? */


       ERR_clear_error();
       if (CONF_modules_load_file(NULL, config_name,
       CONF_MFLAGS_DEFAULT_SECTION|CONF_MFLAGS_IGNORE_MISSING_FILE) <= 0)
              {
              BIO *bio_err;
              ERR_load_crypto_strings();
              if ((bio_err=BIO_new_fp(stderr, BIO_NOCLOSE)) != NULL)
                     {
                     BIO_printf(bio_err,"Auto configuration failed\n");
                     ERR_print_errors(bio_err);
                     BIO_free(bio_err);
                     }
              exit(1);
              }

       return;
       }


Thanks
Sanjay Rai