[release-branch.go1.23] os/exec: fix incorrect expansion of "", "." and ".." in LookPath

Fix incorrect expansion of "" and "." when $PATH contains an executable
file or, on Windows, a parent directory of a %PATH% element contains an
file with the same name as the %PATH% element but with one of the
%PATHEXT% extension (ex: C:\utils\bin is in PATH, and C:\utils\bin.exe
exists).

Fix incorrect expansion of ".." when $PATH contains an element which is
an the concatenation of the path to an executable file (or on Windows
a path that can be expanded to an executable by appending a %PATHEXT%
extension), a path separator and a name.

"", "." and ".." are now rejected early with ErrNotFound.

Fixes CVE-2025-47906
Fixes #74803

Change-Id: Ie50cc0a660fce8fbdc952a7f2e05c36062dcb50e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/685755
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Auto-Submit: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Roland Shoemaker <roland@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
(cherry picked from commit e0b07dc22eaab1b003d98ad6d63cdfacc76c5c70)
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/691855
Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com>
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