[Snyk] Security upgrade tar from 4.4.13 to 4.4.18

[snyk-bot]

Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json
  • package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	711/1000 Why? Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 8.5	Arbitrary File Write SNYK-JS-TAR-1579147	No	No Known Exploit
	711/1000 Why? Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 8.5	Arbitrary File Write SNYK-JS-TAR-1579152	No	No Known Exploit
	711/1000 Why? Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 8.5	Arbitrary File Write SNYK-JS-TAR-1579155	No	No Known Exploit

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: tar

The new version differs by 27 commits.

• 3e35515 4.4.18
• 52b09e3 fix: prevent path escape using drive-relative paths
• bb93ba2 fix: reserve paths properly for unicode, windows
• 2f1bca0 fix: prune dirCache properly for unicode, windows
• 9bf70a8 4.4.17
• 6aafff0 fix: skip extract if linkpath is stripped entirely
• 5c5059a fix: reserve paths case-insensitively
• fd6accb 4.4.16
• 53cea6e tests: run (and pass) on windows
• 166cfc0 fix: refactoring to pass tests on Windows
• ce5148e fix: refactoring to pass tests on Windows
• 3f2e2da fix: normalize paths on Windows systems
• e29a665 fix: properly prefix hard links
• fd2a38d chore: WriteEntry cleaner write() handling
• 7b2acc5 update deps
• 83bb22c WriteEntry backpressure
• 0dcc5b2 chore: track fs state on WriteEntry class, not in arguments
• adf3511 Avoid an unlikely but theoretically possible redos
• d688cad fix: properly handle top-level files when using strip
• ea6f254 unpack: keep path reservations longer
• b2a97e1 Address unpack race conditions using path reservations
• f0fe3aa basic path reservation system
• 843c897 4.4.15
• 46fe350 Remove paths from dirCache when no longer dirs

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