diff --git a/Archive/Tar.php b/Archive/Tar.php
index 8a2d2db..f15df92 100644
--- a/Archive/Tar.php
+++ b/Archive/Tar.php
@@ -2124,7 +2124,16 @@ public function _extractList(
                             }
                         }
                     } elseif ($v_header['typeflag'] == "2") {
-                        if (strpos(realpath(dirname($v_header['link'])), realpath($p_path)) !== 0) {
+                        $up = 0;
+                        $down = 0;
+                        foreach (explode("/", $v_header['link']) as $dir){
+                            if ($dir === "..") {
+                                $up++;
+                            } elseif ($dir !== "" && $dir !== ".") {
+                                $down++;
+                            }
+                        }
+                        if (str_starts_with($v_header['link'], "/") or $up > $down) {
                             $this->_error(
                                  'Out-of-path file extraction {'
                                  . $v_header['filename'] . ' --> ' .