Can you trust a ZIP file?

What guarantees that unpacking a simple ZIP file wont crash a system? What if ZIP file specifies absolute/relative pathname, pointing inside /usr/bin? What if a ZIP-file produces 16777216 files, crashing filesystem?

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The tale of POSIX_ME_HARDER is really funny when you consider that rms is the one who named POSIX in the first place.

The net benefit of the GNU changes to the core tools, positive or negative, depends on the specific tool. tar is much improved, but the lack of a strict POSIX or Bourne compatibility mode for bash has caused no end of problems over the years.