Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment:

This is documented in the tarfile docs:

Warning

Never extract archives from untrusted sources without prior inspection. It is 
possible that files are created outside of path, e.g. members that have 
absolute filenames starting with "/" or filenames with two dots "..".

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nosy: +eric.smith

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