HADOOP-19765. Upgrade to log4j 2.25.3 due to CVE-2025-68161 (#8157)

[pjfanning]

Description of PR

• HADOOP-19765. Upgrade to log4j 2.25.3 due to CVE-2025-68161

How was this patch tested?

For code changes:

• Does the title or this PR starts with the corresponding JIRA issue id (e.g. 'HADOOP-17799. Your PR title ...')?
• Object storage: have the integration tests been executed and the endpoint declared according to the connector-specific documentation?
• If adding new dependencies to the code, are these dependencies licensed in a way that is compatible for inclusion under ASF 2.0?
• If applicable, have you updated the LICENSE, LICENSE-binary, NOTICE-binary files?

[hadoop-yetus]

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			_ branch-3.4 Compile Tests _
+1 💚	mvninstall	24m 36s		branch-3.4 passed
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+1 💚	shadedclient	44m 48s		branch has no errors when building and testing our client artifacts.
			_ Patch Compile Tests _
+1 💚	mvninstall	0m 8s		the patch passed
+1 💚	compile	0m 9s		the patch passed with JDK Ubuntu-11.0.27+6-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu120.04
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+1 💚	mvnsite	0m 11s		the patch passed
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+1 💚	shadedclient	19m 40s		patch has no errors when building and testing our client artifacts.
			_ Other Tests _
+1 💚	unit	0m 11s		hadoop-project in the patch passed.
+1 💚	asflicense	0m 24s		The patch does not generate ASF License warnings.
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[slfan1989]

@pjfanning Thanks for the contribution! Merged into branch-3.4.