DO THE BELOW AT YOUR OWN RISK. It worked fine for me on a CentOS 5 server and should be fine on any RH type system but if you mess up you may break ssh. Note that RH does keep up with security patches so this is not necessary but sometimes it is required.

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8j.tar.gz
tar -zxf openssl-0.9.8j.tar.gz
cd openssl-0.9.8j
./config
make

cd /usr/local/src/
wget ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-5.2p1.tar.gz

tar -zxf openssh-5.2p1.tar.gz
cd openssh-5.2p1
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh --with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.8j --with-pam --with-libs=-ldl --without-zlib-version-check
make

make install