diff --git a/src/node_buffer.cc b/src/node_buffer.cc
index 99fb37ef186b..5c5bbe86e504 100644
--- a/src/node_buffer.cc
+++ b/src/node_buffer.cc
@@ -1086,6 +1086,10 @@ void IndexOfString(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
   } else if (is_forward && offset >= search_end) {
     return args.GetReturnValue().Set(-1);
   }
+  if (enc == UCS2 && is_forward) {
+    offset += offset % sizeof(uint16_t);
+    if (offset >= search_end) return args.GetReturnValue().Set(-1);
+  }
   CHECK_LT(offset, haystack_length);
   if ((is_forward && needle_length + offset > search_end) ||
       needle_length > search_end) {
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-buffer-indexof.js b/test/parallel/test-buffer-indexof.js
index 4bed7f935b87..f23c84bdf2ea 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-buffer-indexof.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-buffer-indexof.js
@@ -308,6 +308,12 @@ assert.strictEqual(Buffer.from('aaaa').indexOf('你好', 'ucs2'), -1);
 // Haystack has odd length, but the needle is UCS2.
 assert.strictEqual(Buffer.from('aaaaa').indexOf('b', 'ucs2'), -1);
 
+{
+  const buf = Buffer.from('\u6881\u6882\u6881', 'utf16le');
+  assert.strictEqual(buf.indexOf('\u6881', 1, 'utf16le'), 4);
+  assert.strictEqual(buf.indexOf('\u6881', -1, 'utf16le'), -1);
+}
+
 {
   // Find substrings in Utf8.
   const lengths = [1, 3, 15];  // Single char, simple and complex.