diff --git a/compiler/rustc_ast/Cargo.toml b/compiler/rustc_ast/Cargo.toml
index d33f9666b484c..34c612dac692b 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_ast/Cargo.toml
+++ b/compiler/rustc_ast/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,10 +4,9 @@ version = "0.0.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
-# FIXME: bumping memchr to 2.7.1 causes linker errors in MSVC thin-lto
 # tidy-alphabetical-start
 bitflags = "2.4.1"
-memchr = "=2.5.0"
+memchr = "2.7.4"
 rustc_ast_ir = { path = "../rustc_ast_ir" }
 rustc_data_structures = { path = "../rustc_data_structures" }
 rustc_index = { path = "../rustc_index" }
diff --git a/library/std/Cargo.toml b/library/std/Cargo.toml
index 9a31fd21dc71a..e4b291d26bd43 100644
--- a/library/std/Cargo.toml
+++ b/library/std/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ unwind = { path = "../unwind" }
 hashbrown = { version = "0.14", default-features = false, features = [
     'rustc-dep-of-std',
 ] }
+# FIXME(#127890): `object` depends on `memchr`, but `memchr` > v2.5 causes
+# issues with LTO. This dependency is not used directly, but pin it here so
+# it is resolved 2.5. To be removed once rust-lang/rust#127890 is fixed.
+memchr = { version = "=2.5.0", default-features = false, features = ["rustc-dep-of-std"] }
 std_detect = { path = "../stdarch/crates/std_detect", default-features = false, features = [
     'rustc-dep-of-std',
 ] }