The vgauthd.service fails with undefined symbol: xmlModuleSymbol error

Issue

The open-vm-tools vgauthd service fails due to following error

● vgauthd.service - VGAuth Service for open-vm-tools
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vgauthd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2024-07-19 07:53:42 CEST; 1min 28s ago
     Docs: http://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
  Process: 1542 ExecStart=/usr/bin/VGAuthService -s (code=exited, status=127)
Main PID: 1542 (code=exited, status=127)

Jul 19 07:53:42 test systemd[1]: Started VGAuth Service for open-vm-tools.
Jul 19 07:53:42 test VGAuthService[1542]: /usr/bin/VGAuthService: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libxslt.so.1: undefined symbol: xmlModuleSymbol, version LIBXML2_2.6.17
Jul 19 07:53:42 test systemd[1]: vgauthd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Jul 19 07:53:42 test  systemd[1]: vgauthd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Checking the symbols of /lib64/libxslt.so.1it contains LIBXML2_2.6.17

readelf -a /lib64/libxslt.so.1 | grep LIBXML2_2.6.1
00000023f5b0  003c00000007 R_X86_64_JUMP_SLO 0000000000000000 xmlModuleSymbol@LIBXML2_2.6.17 + 0
00000023f728  005800000007 R_X86_64_JUMP_SLO 0000000000000000 xmlModuleClose@LIBXML2_2.6.17 + 0
00000023f770  006000000007 R_X86_64_JUMP_SLO 0000000000000000 xmlModuleOpen@LIBXML2_2.6.17 + 0
00000023fcd0  00ca00000007 R_X86_64_JUMP_SLO 0000000000000000 xmlNewDocPI@LIBXML2_2.6.15 + 0
    60: 0000000000000000     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND xmlModuleSymbol@LIBXML2_2.6.17 (36)
    88: 0000000000000000     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND xmlModuleClose@LIBXML2_2.6.17 (36)
    96: 0000000000000000     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND xmlModuleOpen@LIBXML2_2.6.17 (36)
   202: 0000000000000000     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND xmlNewDocPI@LIBXML2_2.6.15 (43)
  03c:  24 (LIBXML2_2.6.17)   1c (LIBXML2_2.4.30)   1c (LIBXML2_2.4.30)   1c (LIBXML2_2.4.30)
  058:  24 (LIBXML2_2.6.17)   22 (LIBXML2_2.5.4)  23 (GLIBC_2.2.5)  1c (LIBXML2_2.4.30)
  060:  24 (LIBXML2_2.6.17)   1c (LIBXML2_2.4.30)   23 (GLIBC_2.2.5)  1c (LIBXML2_2.4.30)
  0c8:  1c (LIBXML2_2.4.30)   1c (LIBXML2_2.4.30)   2b (LIBXML2_2.6.15)   1c (LIBXML2_2.4.30)
  0x00b0:   Name: LIBXML2_2.6.15  Flags: none  Version: 43
  0x0100:   Name: LIBXML2_2.6.17  Flags: none  Version: 36