diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.mask b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.mask
index 1b68e83761..ca89724727 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.mask
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.mask
@@ -15,9 +15,5 @@
 # up. Update this to mask later versions when we switch to 3.11.
 >=dev-lang/python-3.12
 
-# Samba sticks with the old ldb for now. Can be dropped when we update
-# samba to 4.19.x.
->=sys-libs/ldb-2.8
-
 # Update engine needs updating to use a newer version of protobuf.
 >=dev-libs/protobuf-22.0