The official and safest source is the Cisco Software Download portal . A valid service contract (SmartNet) is required to download this specific maintenance release.
Do not install this if you are running ancient hardware revs (like the original 1941 with 512MB RAM). This image requires the 1GB DRAM upgrade .
To avoid C1900-universalk9-mz-spa-157-3-m9-bin download issues in the future:
The IOS image is a universal software release for the Cisco 1900 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR) . This specific version, 15.7(3)M9 , is a maintenance release that provides critical bug fixes and security enhancements for aging networking hardware. How to Properly Fix and Download the Image
The fix wasn't a new download from Cisco. The fix was a surgical patch.
Router# show version