[Snyk] Upgrade google-gax from 3.6.1 to 4.4.1

[WontonSam]

Snyk has created this PR to upgrade google-gax from 3.6.1 to 4.4.1.

ℹ️ Keep your dependencies up-to-date. This makes it easier to fix existing vulnerabilities and to more quickly identify and fix newly disclosed vulnerabilities when they affect your project.

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⚠️ Warning: This PR contains major version upgrade(s), and may be a breaking change.

• The recommended version is 25 versions ahead of your current version.

• The recommended version was released on a month ago.

Issues fixed by the recommended upgrade:

	Issue	Score	Exploit Maturity
	Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) SNYK-JS-BODYPARSER-7926860	111	No Known Exploit
	Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions SNYK-JS-PROBOT-6129524	111	No Known Exploit
	Uncontrolled resource consumption SNYK-JS-BRACES-6838727	111	Proof of Concept
	Infinite loop SNYK-JS-MARKDOWNIT-6483324	111	Proof of Concept
	Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity SNYK-JS-MICROMATCH-6838728	111	No Known Exploit
	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-MOCHA-2863123	111	No Known Exploit
	Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions SNYK-JS-OCTOKITWEBHOOKS-6129527	111	No Known Exploit
	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-7925106	111	Proof of Concept
	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-7925106	111	Proof of Concept
	Cross-site Scripting (XSS) SNYK-JS-SERIALIZEJAVASCRIPT-6147607	111	Proof of Concept
	Open Redirect SNYK-JS-EXPRESS-6474509	111	No Known Exploit
	Cross-site Scripting SNYK-JS-EXPRESS-7926867	111	No Known Exploit
	Uncontrolled Resource Consumption SNYK-JS-GRPCGRPCJS-7242922	111	No Known Exploit
	Cross-site Scripting SNYK-JS-SEND-7926862	111	No Known Exploit
	Cross-site Scripting SNYK-JS-SERVESTATIC-7926865	111	No Known Exploit

Release notes

Package name: google-gax

• 4.4.1 - 2024-09-04
  

  4.4.1 (2024-09-04)

  Bug Fixes

  • expose underlying error with timeouts or retries (#1650) (f4d037a)
• 4.4.0 - 2024-08-27
  

  4.4.0 (2024-08-27)

  Features

  • Improve AuthClient Compatibility (#1641) (4edd33d)

  Bug Fixes

  • deps: update dependency protobufjs-cli to v1.1.3 (#1645) (1b2ffdf)
• 4.3.9 - 2024-08-07
  

  4.3.9 (2024-08-06)

  Bug Fixes

  • reduce duplicate code in streaming retries and add a test (#1636) (83b52e1)
  • test application cleanup (#1639) (76ac496)
• 4.3.8 - 2024-07-08
  

  4.3.8 (2024-07-08)

  Bug Fixes

  • deps: remove rimraf in favor of native node rm function (#1626) (dd87646)
• 4.3.7 - 2024-06-20
  

  4.3.7 (2024-06-19)

  Bug Fixes

  • update various dependencies and linting (#1622) (227b296)
• 4.3.6 - 2024-06-07
  

  4.3.6 (2024-06-06)

  Bug Fixes

  • reduce duplicate code (#1612) (c540ef6)
• 4.3.5 - 2024-05-28
• 4.3.4 - 2024-05-23
• 4.3.3 - 2024-05-03
• 4.3.2 - 2024-03-27
• 4.3.1 - 2024-02-12
• 4.3.0 - 2024-02-01
• 4.2.1 - 2024-01-24
• 4.2.0 - 2024-01-22
• 4.1.0 - 2024-01-12
• 4.0.6-experimental - 2023-12-22
• 4.0.5 - 2023-10-17
• 4.0.5-experimental - 2023-12-22
• 4.0.4 - 2023-09-15
• 4.0.3 - 2023-07-27
• 4.0.2 - 2023-07-25
• 4.0.2-debug - 2023-07-25
• 4.0.1 - 2023-07-21
• 4.0.1-debug - 2023-07-25
• 4.0.0 - 2023-05-17
• 3.6.1 - 2023-07-10

from google-gax GitHub release notes

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