[Snyk] Security upgrade tar from 6.0.5 to 6.1.9

[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

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 46 commits.

• 4f1f4a2 6.1.9
• 875a37e fix: prevent path escape using drive-relative paths
• b6162c7 fix: reserve paths properly for unicode, windows
• 3aaf19b fix: prune dirCache properly for unicode, windows
• 6a9c51d 6.1.8
• dfc5923 fix: skip extract if linkpath is stripped entirely
• 575a511 fix: reserve paths case-insensitively
• d61628c 6.1.7
• 9e018cf tests: run (and pass) on windows
• c2a0948 fix: refactoring to pass tests on Windows
• d0ce670 update deps
• 5360266 fix: normalize paths on Windows systems
• 9bc1729 6.1.6
• bdf4f51 fix: properly prefix hard links
• 94b2a74 chore: remove benchmarks from git repo
• ecaafb4 update deps
• bd4691c 6.1.5
• d694c4f ci: test on node 16
• 84acbd3 fix(unpack): fix hang on large file on open() fail
• 97c46fc fix(unpack): always resume parsing after an entry error
• 488ab8c chore: WriteEntry cleaner write() handling
• be89aaf WriteEntry backpressure
• ba73f5e chore: track fs state on WriteEntry class, not in arguments
• bf69383 6.1.4

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