diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-admin/sudo/sudo-1.9.5_p2.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-admin/sudo/sudo-1.9.5_p2.ebuild
index f751f4103c..f910f1f4fc 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-admin/sudo/sudo-1.9.5_p2.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-admin/sudo/sudo-1.9.5_p2.ebuild
@@ -211,6 +211,11 @@ src_install() {
 	rm -rf "${ED}"/run || die
 
 	find "${ED}" -type f -name "*.la" -delete || die #697812
+
+	# Flatcar specific:
+	# - remove sudo.conf (shipped by baselayout)
+	rm "${ED}/etc/sudo.conf"
+	# Flatcar end
 }
 
 pkg_postinst() {
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
index 40126ba8df..be83c0740f 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # arm64 keywords
 # Keep these in alphabetical order.
 
-=app-admin/sudo-1.8.31 ~arm64
 =app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6-r8 ~arm64
 =app-arch/libarchive-3.3.1 ~arm64
 =app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.14.2 ~arm64