Update rexml to fix CVE-2024-49761

Dominic Couturerequested to merge
dcouture-rexml-CVE-2024-49761 into master

What does this MR do and why?

Update rexml to fix CVE-2024-49761 in several gemfiles.

https://my.diffend.io/gems/rexml/3.3.8/3.3.9

We were already at 3.3.8 following Update rexml to fix CVE-2024-41946 (!169632 - merged)

From the advisories in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/security/vulnerabilities/144430558 we can see that the vulnerability does not affect Ruby 3.2 so we are safe. Upgrading anyway to please the security scanners.

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