After upgrading to SLES15 SP3, SSSD fails to start with WARNING: Module [memberof] not found - do you need to set LDB_MODULES_PATH?

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3

Situation

After upgrading from SLES15 SP2 to SLES15 SP3, sssd service fails to start.
The following error messages can be seen in the logs:

(2022-08-10 20:48:44): [sssd] [ldb] (0x0010): WARNING: Module [memberof] not found - do you need to set LDB_MODULES_PATH?
(2022-08-10 20:48:44): [sssd] [ldb] (0x0010): Unable to load modules for /var/lib/sss/db/cache_ict.kerryad.com.ldb: (null)

Resolution

1) Update to the latest version of sssd and sssd-common:

zypper up sssd sssd-common

If during the update process a message "Package 'sssd' is not installed" appears, reinstall sssd and sssd-common packages:

zypper in -f sssd sssd-common

2) Also update the system to the latest packages version:

zypper patch

Reboot the system if needed.

Start sssd service:

systemctl start sssd.service

Verify if sssd service is started with:

systemctl status sssd.service

Cause

After the upgrade from SLES15 SP2 to SLES15 SP3, ldb, an LDAP-like embedded database where the local cache is stored, is not able to load the required module memberof.so.
The /usr/lib64/ldb2/modules/ldb/memberof.so module is included in sssd-common rpm which needs to be updated to the latest version.

Additional Information

SSSD Architecture

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