Is Android susceptible to OpenSSL vulnerabilities? There has been a big vulnerability discovered in OpenSSL today, are android applications affected, and what can we do to get a secure version?

What about people with older devices (such as the HTC desire HD I have) that are on old android versions (2.3.5), is it possible (for example) to get a up to date browser that doesn't use the installed openSSl, or to get security releases to old versions of android?
Android devices are only susceptible to this bug if they connect to servers which have not updated their server-side OpenSSL components. If the server component of OpenSSL is secure, no data is leaked. Therefore the main focus of this vulnerability is to server admins, not individual users.

Most probably this can be fixed with app updates as a temporary fix, but it will be incorporated to future OS updates. The release of OS upgrades is impossible to predict yet and depends on the manufacturer and carriers.