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test.test_xml_etree*.XMLPullParserTest.test_simple_xml fails with (system) expat 2.6.0 #115133

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Bug description:

Expat 2.6.0 was released yesterday, with CVE fixes. After upgrading the system library and building CPython --with-system-expat, I'm getting the following test failures:

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FAIL: test_simple_xml (test.test_xml_etree.XMLPullParserTest.test_simple_xml) (chunk_size=1)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mgorny/git/cpython/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py", line 1495, in test_simple_xml
    self.assert_event_tags(parser, [('end', 'element')])
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/mgorny/git/cpython/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py", line 1480, in assert_event_tags
    self.assertEqual([(action, elem.tag) for action, elem in events],
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                     expected)
                     ^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: Lists differ: [] != [('end', 'element')]

Second list contains 1 additional elements.
First extra element 0:
('end', 'element')

- []
+ [('end', 'element')]

======================================================================
FAIL: test_simple_xml (test.test_xml_etree.XMLPullParserTest.test_simple_xml) (chunk_size=5)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mgorny/git/cpython/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py", line 1498, in test_simple_xml
    self.assert_event_tags(parser, [
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
        ('end', 'element'),
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        ('end', 'empty-element'),
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        ])
        ^^
  File "/home/mgorny/git/cpython/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py", line 1480, in assert_event_tags
    self.assertEqual([(action, elem.tag) for action, elem in events],
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                     expected)
                     ^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: Lists differ: [('end', 'element')] != [('end', 'element'), ('end', 'empty-element')]

Second list contains 1 additional elements.
First extra element 1:
('end', 'empty-element')

- [('end', 'element')]
+ [('end', 'element'), ('end', 'empty-element')]

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======================================================================
FAIL: test_simple_xml (test.test_xml_etree_c.XMLPullParserTest.test_simple_xml) (chunk_size=1)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mgorny/git/cpython/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py", line 1495, in test_simple_xml
    self.assert_event_tags(parser, [('end', 'element')])
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/mgorny/git/cpython/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py", line 1480, in assert_event_tags
    self.assertEqual([(action, elem.tag) for action, elem in events],
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                     expected)
                     ^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: Lists differ: [] != [('end', 'element')]

Second list contains 1 additional elements.
First extra element 0:
('end', 'element')

- []
+ [('end', 'element')]

======================================================================
FAIL: test_simple_xml (test.test_xml_etree_c.XMLPullParserTest.test_simple_xml) (chunk_size=5)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mgorny/git/cpython/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py", line 1498, in test_simple_xml
    self.assert_event_tags(parser, [
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
        ('end', 'element'),
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        ('end', 'empty-element'),
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        ])
        ^^
  File "/home/mgorny/git/cpython/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py", line 1480, in assert_event_tags
    self.assertEqual([(action, elem.tag) for action, elem in events],
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                     expected)
                     ^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: Lists differ: [('end', 'element')] != [('end', 'element'), ('end', 'empty-element')]

Second list contains 1 additional elements.
First extra element 1:
('end', 'empty-element')

- [('end', 'element')]
+ [('end', 'element'), ('end', 'empty-element')]

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I have reproduced with 3.11.8, 3.12.8 and main as of 2afc718, both using Gentoo ebuild and raw git repository. I've tested the latter like this:

./configure -C --with-system-expat
make -j12
./python -u -W default -bb -E -m test -vv test_xml_etree{,_c}

CC @hartwork

CPython versions tested on:

3.11, 3.12, CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

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