Fixes Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c28ff9c..2d46d7d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@
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+- Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
+  its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
+
 - Issue #17049: Localized calendar methods now return unicode if a locale
   includes an encoding and the result string contains month or weekday (was
   regression from Python 2.6).