diff --git a/Sources/CompressNIO/ByteBuffer+Compressor.swift b/Sources/CompressNIO/ByteBuffer+Compressor.swift
index a64610a..dc3941f 100644
--- a/Sources/CompressNIO/ByteBuffer+Compressor.swift
+++ b/Sources/CompressNIO/ByteBuffer+Compressor.swift
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ extension ByteBuffer {
                 try process(window)
                 window.moveReaderIndex(to: 0)
                 window.moveWriterIndex(to: 0)
+            } catch let error as CompressNIOError where error == .inputBufferOverflow {
+                // can ignore CompressNIOError.inputBufferOverflow errors here
             }
         }
 
@@ -146,6 +148,8 @@ extension ByteBuffer {
                 try self.decompressStream(to: &buffer, with: decompressor)
             } catch let error as CompressNIOError where error == CompressNIOError.bufferOverflow {
                 try _decompress(iteration: iteration + 1, bufferSize: bufferSize)
+            } catch let error as CompressNIOError where error == .inputBufferOverflow {
+                // can ignore CompressNIOError.inputBufferOverflow errors here
             }
         }
 
@@ -196,7 +200,11 @@ extension ByteBuffer {
         to byteBuffer: inout ByteBuffer,
         with decompressor: NIODecompressor
     ) throws {
-        try decompressor.streamInflate(from: &self, to: &byteBuffer)
+        do {
+            try decompressor.streamInflate(from: &self, to: &byteBuffer)
+        } catch let error as CompressNIOError where error == .inputBufferOverflow {
+            // can ignore CompressNIOError.inputBufferOverflow errors here
+        }
     }
 
     /// A version of compressStream which you provide a fixed sized window buffer to and a process closure.
@@ -352,6 +360,8 @@ extension ByteBuffer {
                 try await process(window)
                 window.moveReaderIndex(to: 0)
                 window.moveWriterIndex(to: 0)
+            } catch let error as CompressNIOError where error == .inputBufferOverflow {
+                // can ignore CompressNIOError.inputBufferOverflow errors here
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/Sources/CompressNIO/Error.swift b/Sources/CompressNIO/Error.swift
index 3062f53..d45d4fe 100644
--- a/Sources/CompressNIO/Error.swift
+++ b/Sources/CompressNIO/Error.swift
@@ -5,18 +5,22 @@ import NIOCore
 public struct CompressNIOError: Swift.Error, CustomStringConvertible, Equatable {
     fileprivate enum ErrorEnum: String {
         case bufferOverflow
+        case inputBufferOverflow
         case corruptData
         case noMoreMemory
         case unfinished
         case internalError
     }
+
     fileprivate let error: ErrorEnum
-    
+
     /// return as String
-    public var description: String { return error.rawValue }
-    
+    public var description: String { return self.error.rawValue }
+
     /// output buffer is too small
     public static let bufferOverflow = CompressNIOError(error: .bufferOverflow)
+    /// input buffer is too small
+    public static let inputBufferOverflow = CompressNIOError(error: .inputBufferOverflow)
     /// input data is corrupt
     public static let corruptData = CompressNIOError(error: .corruptData)
     /// ran out of memory
diff --git a/Sources/CompressNIO/Zlib.swift b/Sources/CompressNIO/Zlib.swift
index 1673178..5a35c42 100644
--- a/Sources/CompressNIO/Zlib.swift
+++ b/Sources/CompressNIO/Zlib.swift
@@ -308,7 +308,11 @@ final class ZlibDecompressor: NIODecompressor {
                     throw CompressNIOError.bufferOverflow
                 }
             case Z_BUF_ERROR:
-                throw CompressNIOError.bufferOverflow
+                if self.stream.avail_in == 0 {
+                    throw CompressNIOError.inputBufferOverflow
+                } else {
+                    throw CompressNIOError.bufferOverflow
+                }
             case Z_DATA_ERROR:
                 throw CompressNIOError.corruptData
             case Z_MEM_ERROR:
diff --git a/Tests/CompressNIOTests/NIOCompressTests.swift b/Tests/CompressNIOTests/NIOCompressTests.swift
index 467c8a9..d79b65d 100644
--- a/Tests/CompressNIOTests/NIOCompressTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/CompressNIOTests/NIOCompressTests.swift
@@ -315,6 +315,24 @@ class CompressNIOTests: XCTestCase {
         try self.testCompressionAlgorithm(.deflate(configuration: .init(memoryLevel: 9)))
     }
 
+    func testDecompressWithInputBufferError() throws {
+        var buffer1 = ByteBuffer(bytes: [0xAA, 0xE6, 0x52, 0x50, 0x50, 0x50, 0x72, 0x2C, 0x2D, 0xC9, 0x4F, 0x4A, 0xCC, 0xC8, 0x0B, 0xA8, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xFF])
+        var buffer2 = ByteBuffer(bytes: [0x2A, 0xC9, 0xC8, 0xCF, 0xD3, 0x37, 0xD0, 0x33, 0xD3, 0x33, 0x50, 0xB2, 0x52, 0xA8, 0xE6, 0x52, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xFF])
+        var buffer3 = ByteBuffer(bytes: [0x02, 0x03, 0x25, 0x43, 0x3D, 0x20, 0x04, 0x0B, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xFF])
+        var buffer4 = ByteBuffer(bytes: [0x52, 0x80, 0x01, 0xA5, 0xA4, 0xD4, 0x8C, 0xC4, 0xB2, 0x4C, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xFF])
+        var buffer5 = ByteBuffer(bytes: [0xCA, 0x2F, 0x02, 0x0A, 0x2B, 0xF9, 0x7B, 0x2B, 0xE9, 0x40, 0xA4, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xFF])
+        var buffer6 = ByteBuffer(bytes: [0x42, 0x91, 0x72, 0xCE, 0xC9, 0x07, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF, 0xFF])
+
+        let decompressor = CompressionAlgorithm.deflate().decompressor
+        try decompressor.startStream()
+        _ = try buffer1.decompressStream(with: decompressor, maxSize: 65536)
+        _ = try buffer2.decompressStream(with: decompressor, maxSize: 65536)
+        _ = try buffer3.decompressStream(with: decompressor, maxSize: 65536)
+        _ = try buffer4.decompressStream(with: decompressor, maxSize: 65536)
+        _ = try buffer5.decompressStream(with: decompressor, maxSize: 65536)
+        _ = try buffer6.decompressStream(with: decompressor, maxSize: 65536)
+    }
+
     func testTwoStreamsInParallel() throws {
         let buffer = self.createRandomBuffer(size: 1024)
         var bufferToCompress = buffer