Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

Even though it does change existing behaviour, can anybody imagine a
case where extracting a tarfile now fails when it previously succeeds?

If not, I would consider this a security-relevant fix, and thus a
candidate for a backport. Perhaps this should be raised with
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