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 62a04d5959..c268f1c9f5 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
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 
 =net-misc/openssh-8.8_p1-r3 ~amd64 ~arm64
 
-# Required for addressing CVE-2018-25032 in its bundled zlib
-=net-misc/rsync-3.2.4-r1 ~amd64 ~arm64
+# Required for addressing CVE-2022-29154
+=net-misc/rsync-3.2.6 ~amd64 ~arm64
 
 # To address security issues like CVE-2021-31879, we need to accept
 # keywords for wget 1.21.2.
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
index 4fb4e507f1..baeb75273c 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
@@ -100,9 +100,6 @@ app-emulation/docker-runc selinux
 # enable regular expression processing in jq
 app-misc/jq oniguruma
 
-# Disable sse2 from CPU_FLAGS_X86 to avoid config error around simd
-net-misc/rsync -cpu_flags_x86_sse2
-
 # Don't read the firmware config from /etc/portage/savedconfig/
 sys-kernel/coreos-firmware -savedconfig