[Snyk] Security upgrade react-native from 0.61.2 to 0.68.0

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Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json
  • package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	519/1000 Why? Has a fix available, CVSS 6.1	Denial of Service (DoS) SNYK-JS-HERMESENGINE-2342071	No	No Known Exploit

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: react-native

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• 51f5ea1 [0.68.0] Bump version numbers
• a4a6e23 [0.68.0-rc.4] Bump version numbers
• e645629 Enable SonarKit and Flipper in React-Core (#33499)
• b3f19d7 [0.68.0-rc.3] Bump version numbers
• cb28a26 Bump Flipper-Glog to 0.5.0.4
• 4163386 fix(ios, flipper): update flipper sub-pods to support macCatalyst (#33406)
• ccd1708 Re-apply: Consider relative to pwd installation root when looking for files in rn module via cocoapods (#33427)
• 4e34e6c fix: `cliPath` should handle absolute paths (#32983)
• 3e69592 Fix ios build error when use_frameworks is on and fabric is off (v2) (#33409)
• 5fd04fa Start surface after setting the delegate (#33402)
• a761b79 Use relative installation root instead of absolute to avoid embedding absolute paths in pods project (#33187)
• d7d33c7 Revert D31628461
• 7b33f20 Ship enableNestedTextOnPressEventFix
• 4b370ce Include folly fabric headers in source files (#33188)
• 63e4bd6 Fix Switch causing RetryableMountingLayerException (#32602)
• 762db49 Make sure configureNdkBuild* tasks are depending on preBuild
• 65e4d98 [0.68.0-rc.2] Bump version numbers
• 66b82ae chore(deps): bump CLI version to 7.0.3 to address web debugging issue (#33156)
• 2cd3173 Remove optional codegen config inside template (#33108)
• 61f0d1a Release react-native-gradle-plugin 0.0.5
• 57cc524 Gradle: Deprecate `reactRoot` in favor of `root` and `reactNativeDir` (#33142)
• bca4cf0 Set a resolution strategy for com.facebook.react:react-native when on New Architecture. (#33134)
• f5d371a Set Java source/target compatibility for react-native-gradle-plugin to 8
• b1c30f8 fix: jvm 11 error message from ReactPlugin.kt and react.gradle (#33048)

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