[issue21109] tarfile: Traversal attack vulnerability

[Tal Einat]

Tal Einat <taleinat at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Is there any update on this? Will this be fixed in the next release?

There was progress made as described on this issue, but there is yet work to be done, and no-one seems to be taking this upon themselves at the moment.

I agree that it would be great to have this in 3.8.

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versions:  -Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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