Ruby CVE-2018-8778 Arbitrary Memory Disclosure Vulnerability

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ruby-lang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;buffer-under-read-unpack-cve-2018-8778&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ruby-lang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;28&#x2F;buffer-under-re...</a><p>Affected Versions:<p>Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier<p>Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier<p>Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier<p>Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier<p>Ruby 2.6 series: 2.6.0-preview1<p>prior to trunk revision r62992

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&#x2F;vuln&#x2F;detail&#x2F;CVE-2018-8778" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&#x2F;vuln&#x2F;detail&#x2F;CVE-2018-8778</a><p>Seems like the vulnerability is somewhat old with a published date of 04&#x2F;03&#x2F;2018. Any reason this is coming up again today?