diff --git a/src/ipc/workers/nativeLzma2.ts b/src/ipc/workers/nativeLzma2.ts
index 83523439..713998fc 100644
--- a/src/ipc/workers/nativeLzma2.ts
+++ b/src/ipc/workers/nativeLzma2.ts
@@ -89,9 +89,16 @@ class NativeLzma2Decoder implements Lzma2DecoderPort {
     }
   }
 
-  private queue(bytes: Uint8Array): void {
+  /**
+   * `owned` says the bytes are ours to keep. The library documents `update()`
+   * as handing back a zero-copy view, so that one is copied before a later call
+   * can write over it. `finish()` resolves to the decoded tail and leaves a
+   * spent decoder behind, so nothing can rewrite it, and on a solid block the
+   * copy would be a second copy of the entire block.
+   */
+  private queue(bytes: Uint8Array, owned = false): void {
     if (bytes.length === 0) return
-    this.pending.push(Uint8Array.from(bytes))
+    this.pending.push(owned ? bytes : Uint8Array.from(bytes))
     this.pendingBytes += bytes.length
   }
 
@@ -128,7 +135,7 @@ class NativeLzma2Decoder implements Lzma2DecoderPort {
     if (control === 0) {
       try {
         this.queue(this.decoder.update(Uint8Array.of(0)))
-        this.queue(await this.decoder.finish())
+        this.queue(await this.decoder.finish(), true)
       } catch {
         throw new NativeLzma2Error("the native LZMA2 decoder rejected the stream")
       }
diff --git a/tests/ipc/nativeLzma2Adapter.test.ts b/tests/ipc/nativeLzma2Adapter.test.ts
index 75db172b..55b5cd05 100644
--- a/tests/ipc/nativeLzma2Adapter.test.ts
+++ b/tests/ipc/nativeLzma2Adapter.test.ts
@@ -48,6 +48,33 @@ describe("native LZMA2 adapter", () => {
     expect(received).toEqual(Uint8Array.from([0xa0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0x11, 0x22]))
   })
 
+  it("assembles output correctly when the decoder reuses its update buffer", async () => {
+    // The library returns update() output as a zero-copy view, so a later call
+    // may write over bytes the adapter is still holding. finish() hands back the
+    // tail of a spent decoder, which is why that one is queued without a copy.
+    const reused = new Uint8Array(4)
+    let call = 0
+    class ReusingDecompressor {
+      update(): Uint8Array {
+        reused.fill(++call)
+        return reused
+      }
+
+      async finish(): Promise<Uint8Array> {
+        reused.fill(0xff)
+        return Uint8Array.of(0xaa, 0xbb)
+      }
+    }
+
+    const pieces: Uint8Array[] = []
+    const factory = createNativeLzma2DecoderFactory(ReusingDecompressor)
+    const decoder = factory(0, (bytes) => pieces.push(bytes.slice()))
+    const input = inputOver(Uint8Array.from([0xa0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0x11, 0x22, 0xa0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0x33, 0x44, 0]))
+    while (!decoder.finished) await decoder.decodeChunk(input)
+
+    expect(Buffer.concat(pieces.map((piece) => Buffer.from(piece)))).toEqual(Buffer.from([1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 0xaa, 0xbb]))
+  })
+
   it("drains buffered native output in bounded pieces", async () => {
     const expected = new Uint8Array(5 * 1024 * 1024 + 123)
     expected.fill(7)