diff --git a/tarfile/tarfile_extractall.py b/tarfile/tarfile_extractall.py
index f136d9e..b7c8503 100644
--- a/tarfile/tarfile_extractall.py
+++ b/tarfile/tarfile_extractall.py
@@ -13,5 +13,24 @@
 
 os.mkdir('outdir')
 with tarfile.open('example.tar', 'r') as t:
-    t.extractall('outdir')
+    def is_within_directory(directory, target):
+        
+        abs_directory = os.path.abspath(directory)
+        abs_target = os.path.abspath(target)
+    
+        prefix = os.path.commonprefix([abs_directory, abs_target])
+        
+        return prefix == abs_directory
+    
+    def safe_extract(tar, path=".", members=None, *, numeric_owner=False):
+    
+        for member in tar.getmembers():
+            member_path = os.path.join(path, member.name)
+            if not is_within_directory(path, member_path):
+                raise Exception("Attempted Path Traversal in Tar File")
+    
+        tar.extractall(path, members, numeric_owner=numeric_owner) 
+        
+    
+    safe_extract(t, "outdir")
 print(os.listdir('outdir'))
diff --git a/tarfile/tarfile_extractall_members.py b/tarfile/tarfile_extractall_members.py
index 0c6cefb..af26fb6 100644
--- a/tarfile/tarfile_extractall_members.py
+++ b/tarfile/tarfile_extractall_members.py
@@ -13,7 +13,26 @@
 
 os.mkdir('outdir')
 with tarfile.open('example.tar', 'r') as t:
-    t.extractall('outdir',
+    def is_within_directory(directory, target):
+        
+        abs_directory = os.path.abspath(directory)
+        abs_target = os.path.abspath(target)
+    
+        prefix = os.path.commonprefix([abs_directory, abs_target])
+        
+        return prefix == abs_directory
+    
+    def safe_extract(tar, path=".", members=None, *, numeric_owner=False):
+    
+        for member in tar.getmembers():
+            member_path = os.path.join(path, member.name)
+            if not is_within_directory(path, member_path):
+                raise Exception("Attempted Path Traversal in Tar File")
+    
+        tar.extractall(path, members, numeric_owner=numeric_owner) 
+        
+    
+    safe_extract(t, "outdir", members=[t.getmember("README.txt")])
                  members=[t.getmember('README.txt')],
                  )
 print(os.listdir('outdir'))