Metasploit bignum too big to convert into `long' error

Background:
If you are having the following error, it might be that your Metasploit framework is outdated.
I was having this issue when i used Metasploit framework from a Kali 2017 vm image without updating it.

Solution:
1. Update the framework, the below command works on my Kali Linux.

apt update
apt install metasploit-framework