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 6765aead14..a58a51a895 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
@@ -15,7 +15,3 @@
 # Require our ca-certificates package based directly on Mozilla's
 # certificate store provided in NSS rather than the Gentoo/Debian package.
 >=app-misc/ca-certificates-20000000
-
-# Stick with glibc-2.17 for now
->=sys-libs/glibc-2.19
->=cross-x86_64-cros-linux-gnu/glibc-2.19