diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index f48b477..eb42055 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@
     ignore_zeros = False        # If true, skips empty or invalid blocks and
                                 # continues processing.
 
-    errorlevel = 0              # If 0, fatal errors only appear in debug
+    errorlevel = 1              # If 0, fatal errors only appear in debug
                                 # messages (if debug >= 0). If > 0, errors
                                 # are passed to the caller as exceptions.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2ccef10..9cc7e82 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
+  default.
+
 - Issue #7470: logging: fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
 
 - Issue #5949: fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is