[Android] Crash in the new version of the IMA SDK 3.37.0

[Eugene Huzyk]

Hello!

We started to see a new crash after we updated to the recent IMA SDK version 3.37.0.

It happens to some of our users in production while the video ad is tried to be shown on the screen.

We don't have any particular steps to reproduce it, but there is a clear stacktrace of the crash:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to read from field 'int com.google.ads.interactivemedia.v3.internal.zzez.zzb' on a null object reference in method 'com.google.ads.interactivemedia.v3.internal.zzpm com.google.ads.interactivemedia.v3.internal.zzfa.zzd(java.lang.String)'
        at com.google.ads.interactivemedia.v3.internal.zzfa.zzd(com.google.ads.interactivemedia.v3:interactivemedia@@3.37.0:5)
        at com.google.ads.interactivemedia.v3.internal.zzet.zze(com.google.ads.interactivemedia.v3:interactivemedia@@3.37.0:1)
        at com.google.ads.interactivemedia.v3.impl.zzs.run(com.google.ads.interactivemedia.v3:interactivemedia@@3.37.0:1)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)

Can you please fix it?
Thank you!

[IMA SDK]

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[2025-08-18 19:21:24Z GMT] This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!500Ht01szPYb:ref" (ADR-00330268)