yum command throws an error /usr/lib/libssl.so.10: file too short

Issue

• Any yum command results into below error message:

# yum list
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

   /usr/lib/libssl.so.10: file too short

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.6.6 (r266:84292, May 22 2015, 08:34:51)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-15)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
  http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq