Why does curl command show wrong OpenSSL version, 0.9.8b with using opensssl 0.9.8e?

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• Why does curl command show wrong OpenSSL version, 0.9.8b with using opensssl 0.9.8e?

# openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008
# curl -V
curl 7.15.5 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps 
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz 
# curl -v http://www.example.com/ 2>&1 | head -5
* About to connect() to www.example.com port 80
*   Trying 192.168.122.5... connected
* Connected to www.example.com (192.168.122.5) port 80
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5