Expose Expat XML attack protection APIs

[gpshead]

BPO	46793
Nosy	@gpshead, @hartwork, @corona10

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title = 'expose expat XML billion laughs attack mitigation APIs'
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Linked PRs

• gh-90949: add Expat API to prevent XML deadly allocations #139234
• gh-90949: amend GH-139234 in prevision of future mitigation API #139366
• [3.14] gh-90949: add Expat API to prevent XML deadly allocations (CVE-2025-59375) (GH-139234) #139359
• [3.13] gh-90949: add Expat API to prevent XML deadly allocations (CVE-2025-59375) (GH-139234) #139367
• [3.12] gh-90949: add Expat API to prevent XML deadly allocations (CVE-2025-59375) (GH-139234) #139527
• [3.11] gh-90949: add Expat API to prevent XML deadly allocations (CVE-2025-59375) (GH-139234) #139529
• [3.10] gh-90949: add Expat API to prevent XML deadly allocations (CVE-2025-59375) (GH-139234) #139532
• gh-90949: expose Expat API to tune exponential expansion protections #139368
• gh-90949: Fix an "unused function" compiler warning introduced in GH-139234 #139558
• gh-90949: Recommend hasattr with Expat security methods #139800

[gpshead]

Quoting from #31397 (comment)

"""
XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionActivationThreshold

XML_SetBillionLaughsAttackProtectionMaximumAmplification

I still hope that someone can make those two^^ accessible (with additional glue code) to the user on pyexpat level in CPython.
""" - Sebastian Pipping @hartwork

[hartwork]

First mention at https://bugs.python.org/issue44394#msg395642

[hartwork]

FYI starting with Expat 2.7.2, there are two new API functions more related to both security and amplification:

• XML_SetAllocTrackerActivationThreshold
• XML_SetAllocTrackerMaximumAmplification