Comment # 1 on bug 1208164 from Niklas Haas

Observe it working after downgrade:

$ zypper in --oldpackage vulkan-validationlayers-1.3.236.0-1.2
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following package is going to be downgraded:
  vulkan-validationlayers

The following NEW package is going to be installed:
  libVkLayer_utils-1_3_236_0

1 package to downgrade, 1 new.
Overall download size: 2.9 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation,
additional 1.7 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y
Retrieving: libVkLayer_utils-1_3_236_0-1.3.236.0-1.2.x86_64 (Main Repository
(OSS) (20230129))                                                              
              (1/2),  56.6 KiB    
Retrieving: libVkLayer_utils-1_3_236_0-1.3.236.0-1.2.x86_64.rpm
...........................................................................................................[done
(155.2 KiB/s)]
Retrieving: vulkan-validationlayers-1.3.236.0-1.2.x86_64 (Main Repository (OSS)
(20230129))                                                                    
           (2/2),   2.9 MiB    
Retrieving: vulkan-validationlayers-1.3.236.0-1.2.x86_64.rpm
................................................................................................................[done
(8.1 MiB/s)]

Checking for file conflicts:
............................................................................................................................................................[done]
(1/2) Installing: libVkLayer_utils-1_3_236_0-1.3.236.0-1.2.x86_64
.......................................................................................................................[done]
(2/2) Installing: vulkan-validationlayers-1.3.236.0-1.2.x86_64
..........................................................................................................................[done]

$ echo '#include <dlfcn.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\nint main() { if
(!dlopen("/usr/lib64/libVkLayer_khronos_validation.so", RTLD_LAZY)) {
printf("%s\\n", dlerror()); }}' | gcc -xc -o test - && ./test  
$