Make sure you check for bzerror while looping through a bzfile. bzread will not detect a compression error and can continue forever even at the cost of 100% cpu.

$fh = bzopen('file.bz2','r');
while(!feof($fh)) {
  $buffer = bzread($fh);
  if($buffer === FALSE) die('Read problem');
  if(bzerror($fh) !== 0) die('Compression Problem');
}
bzclose($fh);

The earlier posted code has a small bug in it: it uses bzerror instead of bzerrno. Should be like this:

$fh = bzopen('file.bz2','r');
while(!feof($fh)) {
  $buffer = bzread($fh);
  if($buffer === FALSE) die('Read problem');
  if(bzerrno($fh) !== 0) die('Compression Problem');
}
bzclose($fh);