NPM Image CVE: Resolve CVE-2025-40909 in the perl-base Library

[rayaisaiah]

The current trivy scan of NPM (trivy --scanners vuln image --ignore-unfixed -f table mcr.microsoft.com/containernetworking/azure-npm:v1.6.32) reveals the following CVE in the base Ubuntu image:

mcr.microsoft.com/containernetworking/azure-npm:v1.6.32 (ubuntu 24.04)
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Total: 1 (UNKNOWN: 0, LOW: 0, MEDIUM: 1, HIGH: 0, CRITICAL: 0)

┌───────────┬────────────────┬──────────┬────────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Library  │ Vulnerability  │ Severity │ Status │  Installed Version  │    Fixed Version    │                           Title                            │
├───────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ perl-base │ CVE-2025-40909 │ MEDIUM   │ fixed  │ 5.38.2-3.2ubuntu0.1 │ 5.38.2-3.2ubuntu0.2 │ perl: Perl threads have a working directory race condition │
│           │                │          │        │                     │                     │ where file operations...                                   │
│           │                │          │        │                     │                     │ https://avd.aquasec.com/nvd/cve-2025-40909                 │
└───────────┴────────────────┴──────────┴────────┴─────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Resolve this CVE for the release/v1.6 branch of NPM.