[issue21109] tarfile: Traversal attack vulnerability

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes added the comment:

It's a known and well-documented behavior of the tar module:

https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/tarfile.html#tarfile.TarFile.extractall

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