diff --git a/infer/src/clang/cTrans.ml b/infer/src/clang/cTrans.ml
index cb2ba4a49..0ce85078d 100644
--- a/infer/src/clang/cTrans.ml
+++ b/infer/src/clang/cTrans.ml
@@ -2404,7 +2404,8 @@ module CTrans_funct (F : CModule_type.CFrontend) : CModule_type.CTranslation = s
     match (decl_list : Clang_ast_t.decl list) with
     | VarDecl _ :: _ | CXXRecordDecl _ :: _ | RecordDecl _ :: _ ->
         collect_all_decl trans_state decl_list succ_nodes stmt_info
-    | (TypedefDecl _ | TypeAliasDecl _ | UsingDecl _ | UsingDirectiveDecl _) :: _ ->
+    | (NamespaceAliasDecl _ | TypedefDecl _ | TypeAliasDecl _ | UsingDecl _ | UsingDirectiveDecl _)
+      :: _ ->
         mk_trans_result (mk_fresh_void_exp_typ ()) empty_control
     | decl :: _ ->
         CFrontend_config.unimplemented __POS__ stmt_info.Clang_ast_t.si_source_range
diff --git a/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/frontend.cpp b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/frontend.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..99bf91cc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/frontend.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+namespace some {
+namespace thing {
+using foo_int = int;
+int* bad_ptr() {
+  int* p = new (int);
+  delete p;
+  return p;
+}
+} // namespace thing
+} // namespace some
+
+// test that NamespaceAliasDecl is handled correctly
+void deref_null_namespace_alias_ptr_bad() {
+  namespace st = some::thing;
+  st::foo_int x = 0;
+  int* p = st::bad_ptr();
+  *p = x;
+}
diff --git a/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/issues.exp b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/issues.exp
index a148b68cc..acf642d05 100644
--- a/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/issues.exp
+++ b/infer/tests/codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/issues.exp
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/deduplication.cpp, deduplication::SomeTemplatedClass<int
 codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/deduplication.cpp, deduplication::templated_function_bad<_Bool>, 3, USE_AFTER_DELETE, no_bucket, ERROR, [invalidation part of the trace starts here,when calling `deduplication::templated_delete_function` here,memory was invalidated by `delete` here,use-after-lifetime part of the trace starts here,assigned,when calling `deduplication::templated_access_function` here,invalid access occurs here here]
 codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/deduplication.cpp, deduplication::templated_function_bad<int>, 3, USE_AFTER_DELETE, no_bucket, ERROR, [invalidation part of the trace starts here,when calling `deduplication::templated_delete_function` here,memory was invalidated by `delete` here,use-after-lifetime part of the trace starts here,assigned,when calling `deduplication::templated_access_function` here,invalid access occurs here here]
 codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/folly_DestructorGuard.cpp, UsingDelayedDestruction::double_delete_bad, 2, USE_AFTER_DELETE, no_bucket, ERROR, [invalidation part of the trace starts here,memory was invalidated by `delete` here,use-after-lifetime part of the trace starts here,invalid access occurs here here]
+codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/frontend.cpp, deref_null_namespace_alias_ptr_bad, 4, USE_AFTER_DELETE, no_bucket, ERROR, [invalidation part of the trace starts here,assigned,when calling `some::thing::bad_ptr()` here,memory was invalidated by `delete` here,use-after-lifetime part of the trace starts here,returned from call to `some::thing::bad_ptr()`,assigned,invalid access occurs here here]
 codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/interprocedural.cpp, access_to_invalidated_alias, 3, USE_AFTER_DELETE, no_bucket, ERROR, [invalidation part of the trace starts here,when calling `invalidate_and_set_to_null()` here,memory was invalidated by `delete` here,use-after-lifetime part of the trace starts here,assigned,when calling `wraps_read()` here,when calling `wraps_read_inner()` here,invalid access occurs here here]
 codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/interprocedural.cpp, delete_aliased_then_read_bad, 4, USE_AFTER_DELETE, no_bucket, ERROR, [invalidation part of the trace starts here,assigned,memory was invalidated by `delete` here,use-after-lifetime part of the trace starts here,assigned,when calling `wraps_read()` here,when calling `wraps_read_inner()` here,invalid access occurs here here]
 codetoanalyze/cpp/pulse/interprocedural.cpp, delete_inner_then_write_bad, 2, USE_AFTER_DELETE, no_bucket, ERROR, [invalidation part of the trace starts here,when calling `wraps_delete_inner()` here,memory was invalidated by `delete` here,use-after-lifetime part of the trace starts here,when calling `wraps_read()` here,when calling `wraps_read_inner()` here,invalid access occurs here here]