diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 56eebe2b..1e9f8154 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2023-10-07  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
+
+        * Bug fix: when piping stream data, don't call finish on failure
+        if the failure was caused by a previous call to finish. Fixes
+        #1042.
+
 2023-09-05  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 
         * 11.6.1: release
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
index bd591a51..473cf5f0 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
@@ -2418,6 +2418,7 @@ QPDF::pipeStreamData(
         decryptStream(encp, file, qpdf_for_warning, pipeline, og, stream_dict, to_delete);
     }
 
+    bool attempted_finish = false;
     bool success = false;
     try {
         file->seek(offset, SEEK_SET);
@@ -2432,6 +2433,7 @@ QPDF::pipeStreamData(
             length -= len;
             pipeline->write(buf, len);
         }
+        attempted_finish = true;
         pipeline->finish();
         success = true;
     } catch (QPDFExc& e) {
@@ -2461,7 +2463,7 @@ QPDF::pipeStreamData(
             }
         }
     }
-    if (!success) {
+    if (!attempted_finish) {
         try {
             pipeline->finish();
         } catch (std::exception&) {