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 44ecd71e89..d7abf3ba94 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
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
 # Required for some CVEs
 =app-editors/vim-8.2.5066-r1 ~amd64 ~arm64
 =app-editors/vim-core-8.2.5066-r1 ~amd64 ~arm64
-=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.12-r2 ~amd64 ~arm64
 
 # Duktape is not yet stable
 =dev-lang/duktape-2.7.0-r1 ~amd64 ~arm64