GH-16423 upgrade protobuf , google-cloud-storage, and fix CVE-2024-7254…

… (#16426)

* upgrade google-cloud-storage to newest

* upgarde protobuf and exclude the one from hadoop-common

h2o-assemblies/main/build.gradle

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ dependencies {
         exclude group: "org.apache.curator"
         exclude group: "org.apache.zookeeper"
         exclude group: "org.eclipse.jetty"
+        exclude group: "org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty", module: "hadoop-shaded-protobuf_3_7"
     }
 
     // Upgrade dependencies of h2o-jetty-9
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ dependencies {
 
     // Upgrade dependencies coming from Hadoop to address vulnerabilities 
     api "org.apache.commons:commons-compress:1.26.0"
-    api "com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.21.7"
+    api "com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.25.5"
 
     constraints {
         api('com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.17.2') {

h2o-persist-gcs/build.gradle

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description = "H2O Persist GCS"
 
 dependencies {
     api project(":h2o-core")
-    api 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-storage:2.13.1'
+    api ('com.google.cloud:google-cloud-storage:2.43.2')
 
     testImplementation project(":h2o-test-support")
     testRuntimeOnly project(":${defaultWebserverModule}")