Fix path handling bug in safe_tarfile_extractall#219
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The helper function `is_within_directory` could return false positives which might have lead to incorrect tarball extraction. This was triggered by https://sethmlarson.dev/deprecate-confusing-apis-like-os-path-commonprefix; we run into the same issue as mentioned there.
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The helper function
is_within_directorycould return false positives which might have lead to incorrect tarball extraction. This was triggered by https://sethmlarson.dev/deprecate-confusing-apis-like-os-path-commonprefix; we run into the same issue as mentioned there.