diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
index c63fc6c0ba..75c574ddeb 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
@@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ dev-util/catalyst ~amd64 ~arm64
 =dev-libs/libp11-0.4.12-r6 ~arm64
 =dev-libs/opensc-0.24.0 ~arm64
 =dev-libs/protobuf-23.3-r4 ~arm64
+
+# These seem to be the versions we initially got, but the
+# modifications made to the ebuilds were clobbered, so these are here
+# to keep using the same version. Can be dropped when these or newer
+# get stabilized in Gentoo.
+=dev-libs/yajl-2.1.0-r5 ~amd64 ~arm64
+
+# Keep versions on both arches in sync.
 =dev-python/cython-3.0.10 ~arm64
 =dev-python/lxml-5.2.1 ~arm64
 =dev-util/pahole-1.26 ~arm64